The Washington critic., 1887-12-21
GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY.

The annual report OF the Brooklyn
bridge trustees, filed with Mayor Hewitt,
shows that for the year ended December
!, 1887, thetotal receipts from tolls were
$3.50, 724.2 .23, of which the railway earned
$76S, 1850, the carriage ways S65, 743. "a,
and the promenade Sl6,2l2.2S. This is
an increase of $l07 ,407. .lS over last year.
The total number of persons who went
over the bridge was 30,604, ,726, an excess
Of 1856, 742 over last year.
At the first meeting of the new board
of directors of the Richmond and West
Point Terminal Company, ,whichwas held
yesterday in New York, President Sully,
Vice-President Logan and the other
officers were reelected, and Ed. Lau-
terbach and s. NJ. Inman of Atlanta
were elected directors in place of r. p.
Flower and William III. Rockefeller.
The board then passed u resolution au-
thorizing Edgar NJ. johnson to attend
the Richmond and Danville meeting
and cast the proxies held by the COM
pany for the following ticket: George S.
Scott, president, and directors John A.
lnman, Samuel Thomas, Calvin s. Brice,
John G. Moore, II. C. Fahnestock,
George +. Stone, Emanuel Lehman, j.
A. Rutherford, G. S. McGhee, John S.
Barbour, j. c. Maben and S. M. Swan.
The names Of the executive officers of
the Richmond and Terminal Company
were left out Of the Richmond and
Danville board in accordance with Il
suggestion made by President Sully in
his report.
Coroner Eidman of New York had an
inquest yesterday In the case of Nellie
southwick, young woman who was
found dead with a bullet in her breast,
in the yard of house in West Twenty
first street, where she lived with Robert
Montgomery, an actor. The jury rem
dered u verdict of suicide, and Mont
gomery, who had been under arrest since
the young woman's body was found, was
discharged. To the coroner and Jurors
he said that although no marriage cere-
mony had taken place, he looked upon
Nellie as his wife and had introduced
her as such to his friends. The suicide
is supposed to have been brought about
by quarrel between Montgomery and
Nellie, resulting from her refusal to tell
him what she had done with diamond
ring he had given her some time ago. 1t
has since been learned that she pawned
1t to buy him a Christmas present.
An uptown train on the Sixth Ave-
nue. Elevated Railroad in New York,
crowded with passengers, was thrown
from the track near the Franklin Street
Station, in West Broadway yesterday
afternoon. The cars bumped along over
the ties and would have fallen into the
street but for the fact that at the point
where the accident occurred new track
Is being put in over to the middle of the
street, and timbers to sustain the addi-
tional track had been thrown across
between the tracks on the sides of the
street. The derailed train was, there
fore, sustained by these timbers. The
passengers were terribly frightened and
panic-stricken; but no one was hurt
They left the cars and climbed down
upon the structure and along II to the
Franklin Street Station, where they de-
scended to the street. Traffic ON the road
was suspended two hours while the
train was being replaced IN the track
lnd the damage to the road-bed repaired
The accident is attributed to defective
rail, but will not be fully explained un-
til an investigation has been made. This
is the first time in the history of the
elevated roads that cars have entirely
left the track so rs to be in danger Of
falling to the street. The officials have